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NASA Staff Horrified at Plan to Trash Specialized Science Equipment

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6 points·by dv_dt·hace 8 meses·1 comments

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dv_dt
·hace 19 horas·discuss
I would suspect that one would buy based on mem-bus & PCIe bus speeds more than CPU for this, and just dial down the CPU parameters to save power. Most of the time and power will be consumed by memory and bus transfers because the CPU will mostly be waiting to the right set of weights and factors to multiply.
dv_dt
·hace 21 horas·discuss
The biggest annoyance with personal finance for me is bill paying and has little that ai can address. Either you let a bunch of third party systems automatically bill your account or you have to login to each billing account, find the amount, look up the pay date etc... And thats just one core problem - the other automation issue is actually logging into every billing account. And not thanks to a centralized thired party holding every password to every financial account I have.

At least some institutions are getting alternative pay only access profiles but its a slim minority and they close but not quite what is needed for secure consumer side automated bill paying
dv_dt
·hace 3 días·discuss
what is the advantage of git worktree vs using a git remote set to a local file upstream.
dv_dt
·hace 5 días·discuss
Lightest weight: bat and ripgrep

Though not a traditional ide
dv_dt
·hace 7 días·discuss
Ive seen someone make electric retrofit kits for vespas which sounds great to me
dv_dt
·hace 8 días·discuss
So let's say a Delaware incorporated company sells location data that happens to be collected in Virginia, but its sold from the corporation with no operations in Virginia. What happens? On the other hand us-east-1 is in Virginia with who knows how many payment processing servers running.
dv_dt
·hace 9 días·discuss
I think about parallels to custom auto hobbyists. There are a lot of shops that can do incredible builds matching up different parts, engines, suspensions and even large scale chassis mods, but there are comparatively few outfits setup to build the car from scratch. A car is a different scale endeavor than a vacuum but some of the tradeoffs are similar. Maybe the engine, transmission etc mechanical interfaces are more easily modified and adapted than digital electrical software interfaces
dv_dt
·hace 10 días·discuss
Are current AI offerings from companies in the US considered dumping?
dv_dt
·hace 10 días·discuss
Dumping is the word used for some other nations effective industrial development policy
dv_dt
·hace 10 días·discuss
I have noticed that austerity first economics is correlated with poor economic performance. There is no avoiding change and the question is if nations lean into the change or wall themselves into isolation and stagnation
dv_dt
·hace 12 días·discuss
Im not sure of your direction as the age verification legislation also does not address this:

| They did not fight for your right to gang up on others and call them the n-word, to spread lies and slander about people, to harass children and expose them to creeps and pedophiles, to inundate children with hyper-targeted advertising, or 'Andrew Tate 'how to beat women' seminars'.

I think existing laws should be engaged to address pedophiles and incitement of violence in public spaces and social media - no new legislation is really needed. Barring potential victims from a place instead of prosecuting the noxious behavior from the public place seems like an odd approach indeed.

As for libraries - libraries are curated spaces of freedom that are obviously under assault by right wing parties to ban books that support cultural and personal acceptance for other societies as well as out groups like lgbt information, and even basic women's health information. The problem for authoritarians is libraries are too free - not that they are "curated".
dv_dt
·hace 12 días·discuss
The science for age bans on social media is weak at best. There were pretty much terrible studies done during Covid and did not attribute all sorts of uncertainty going on at the same time.

If the point were to improve on the mental health of kids there are countless underfunded public programs. Especially in the US, social support programs like food, healthcare basic and mental, actual physical public spaces for kids, arts in curriculum, etc.
dv_dt
·hace 12 días·discuss
My local librarian did not restrict my books to the kids section when I was a kid. Also librarians have fought civil legal battles to keep reading activities anonymous. Libraries are unlike the restrictions and risks of the proposed legislation being discussed for social media
dv_dt
·hace 12 días·discuss
So the solution for criminals in the public is for everybody to show their papers walking into a public square? It is not, we have requirements for police process like warrants and a process for determining the requirements for urgent conditions of arrest.
dv_dt
·hace 12 días·discuss
Social media age verification is like none of those - social media is the modern public square and age verification is asking everybody to show their papers before participating in free speech in the public. It will have a chilling effect on free speech and will be a tool for authoritarian control
dv_dt
·hace 14 días·discuss
See the Chicken tax for trucks for a not so recent example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tax
dv_dt
·hace 16 días·discuss
A trillion dollar ipo jist occurred for a company whose main line of business is almost entirely subsidized by government contracts
dv_dt
·hace 18 días·discuss
The large ai companies bought advance purchases of memory while the actual buildouts are massively lagging and will probably never materialize at even 70% of planned capacity for years. They are financed and motivated to create their own tulip craze disconnected with actual need
dv_dt
·hace 19 días·discuss
Why is "no tax funding" a hard requirement? I would think the lowest cost to get that market information publicly shared and forthcoming (and thus increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of the market), would be for a government dept to operate the frontend distribution, but require regulatory submissions of transaction data within reasonable latency windows. It's just a modern form of say US SEC document submissions and EDGAR to distribute.
dv_dt
·hace 19 días·discuss
Seems like a bit of a false dichotomy- other alternatives are regulatory requirements or taxes that force or allow the api to be provisioned